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She is currently serving on the Board of Chancellors for the Academy of American Poets.

Naomi Shihab Nye is also the recipient of several fellowships, including a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.

She is the two-time winner of the Jane Addams Book Award for Peace & Justice, and four-time winner of the Pushcart Prize.

Her book of short-short fiction from Greenwillow Books is called There Is No Long Distance Now.

She is also the author of the novels Habibi and Going, Going.

She has written or edited 30 previous book

Alhambra Calendar, Arab American Life and Culture Today, Bellevue Literary Review, Cerise Press, Five Points, Horn Book, Jung Journal, Langdon Review, Melus, The Midwest Quarterly, Nashville Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East, The Sun, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and World Lit Today.

Thanks to Peter Conners for his patience and to Thom Ward for early help on some of these poem

My legacy. His last word. Parsley.

She always told him that his words, in person and writing, had changed her own perspective about the Middle East—“as if suddenly I had taken off the sunglasses and seen facets from his unblinking eyes.”